Win98 -- all kidding aside

[Jimmy Montague]

Thank you, Spruil. It's nice to know that because I just a few minutes
installed Vbox. I was gonna do the 98 install tonight. Now I think I
might not . . . . And lately I been wondering just why I want to do it
anyway. Maybe I'll just forget the whole thing.


> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:16:19 -0500, Jimmy Montague wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way to get Win98 running inside Ubuntu?
> 
> I hope 98 works in Vmware because I found it very hard to get working 
> properly in Virtualbox.
> 
> In many cases it's hard to install in the first place because, at least 
> in my case, the OEM and upgrade CDs were never bootable. You can overcome 
> this by using one of the IMGs at bootdisk.com
> 
> Then you hit the second snag. Vbox Additions don't work with 98 and this 
> created all sorts of hardware issues for me. I never really resolved this 
> and in the end I just used an old 233 I bought from the local paper.
> 
>  Xen might be a third option.
> 
>